Quaid Awarded $750,000 Over Hospital Negligence

Dennis Quaid has been awarded $750,000 after a Los Angeles’ hospital blunder left his twin babies fighting for their lives last year.

The actor and his wife, Kimberley, reached the settlement against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for the accidental overdose of newborns Thomas and Zoe, who were mistakenly given a near-fatal amount of blood thinning drug Heparin and spent days battling for their lives.

The twins have since recovered and are in good health, but Quaid insists the mishap could have been avoided if there was a better system of marking medicines.

California regulators fined hospital bosses $25,000 after concluding the failure of staff at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to follow their own procedures resulted in incorrect doses of the drug being administered to Quaid’s infants and other children.

Papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday state: “The settlement is the result of extensive negotiations between the parties and their respective legal representatives, and is intended to avoid the time, expense and uncertainty of litigation.”

The monetary settlement is subject to court approval.

Quaid and his wife have also filed a lawsuit against Heparin’s drug maker, accusing it of negligence in packaging adult and pediatric doses in similar vials. The settlement with Cedars does not affect that lawsuit.